This is My Life

I’m a couch potato. I can spend my whole weekend at home watching TV. At least once for the past few months. Not because I don’t have anything to do outside the house or lack of friends, I’m just plain old LAZY. Lazy but honest enough to admit I’m lazy but again, too lazy not to do anything about it.

A few empirical evidence to support my claim.

1. Charm School - VH1. Need I say more?
2. Deadliest Catch - Discovery. I watch it almost every night, including re-runs.
3. The Nanny - Lifetime. Before I go to the office EVERY morning.
4. Any poker tournament I catch.
5. Sheer Genius, Life on the D-List, Top Chef, actually any reality TV show in Bravo.
6. Family Guy, South Park, and Futurama.
7. Modern Marvel - Discovery
8. Iron Chef, Food Network Challenge, and $40 a day - Food Network

I love TV! Not really.

1. Better Days by Dianne Reeves - Unless you are Dianne or a karaoke master in drag, don’t even attempt to sing this song.

2. I’ve Never Been to Me by Charlene - The ultimate ‘pokpok’ song. Luvs it!

3. Saving all my Love for You by Whitney Houston - Kanta ng mga kerida.

4. Secret Lovers Atlantic Starr - Self explanatory.

5. And I am telling You I’m not Going from Dreamgirls - Kapit tuko. Panalo si Jennifer Hudson, para syang lalamunan na nagsa-tao.

6. Through the Fire by Chaka Khan - Another birit song.

7. I will Survive Diana Ross - Para sa mga sawi sa pag-ibig.

8. Stop in the Name of Love - I just have to include this song.

9. I know Him so Well by Abba - Akala mo lang yun!

10. Someone that I used to Love Barbara S

11. The Way we Were by Barbara S

12. Tell Me by Joey Albert

13. Ngayon at Kailanman ni Basil Valdez

14. Pakisabi na Lang the Company - Torpe!

15. Suddenly duet ni Olivia Newton-John and Cliff Richard

16. Caught up in the Rapture Anita Baker

17. This time I’ll be Sweeter

18. Tonigh I give In

19. You Should know by Now

Last three songs are by Angela Bofill para sa mga mapagbigay.

Seryoso, ito ang maririnig mo sa kotse namin.

Maraming salamat ke Ron sa pag burn nito sa CD.

I have an insatiable appetite for life and everything that goes with it or so I’d like to tell myself. I probably spent a good half of my life wanting more, always more, complaining about the glass being half empty instead of half full.

For the next few days though I’d like to beg for your indulgence and let me act and think positive like I am the frigging motivational speaker of your school or your perky career counselor. You have my permission to hit me if I’m not acting the part. Just be ready because I’ll probably hit back at you.

I know I have a lot to be thankful and happy for. Let me see if I can write all of them down.

1. Healthy personal relationship with God.
2. Loving and healthy family.
3. Fabulous friends.
4. A good job. I’m tempted to write that ‘good’ is relative and rant about what I really think about this but I won’t. Positive. Think positive!

I guess these are the only stuff that matters to me……for now. You weren’t expecting me to enumerate my friends, shoes, and all that jazz were you? Jeez! That’d be a waste of time, my time which I actually have plenty of right now but….ok…waste of effort.

‘Look at me I’m 23, beautiful, a sight to see tonight.’ This is a line from a song that I used to think was aptly written for me (the line not the entire song)…how narcissistic…or just plain delusional. Now I replace 23 with twenty-something. How embarrassing.

I fell in love the minute I laid eyes on them.

I almost cried when I tried them on. They were simply perfect.

But life is such a bitch! They cost a fortune!

I’m giving myself a week to think.

To buy or not to buy?

For the love of god! Somebody stop me!

I am half way through my nutella, about to open my 4th bag of cheetos, ate half loaf of bread…wheat bread of course, and two cups of ice cream! This is on top of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and 2 granola bars!

I am sure I have a similar entry last year about bingeing…this is not good!

Nakasiksik sa gitna namin nina wins at consi si jud at pat. Si ninie ang kumukuha ng picture.

Yakap at halik sa inyong lahat!

A few days from now I will celebrate my 5th year in Accenture. Who would have thought that I would last this long?

Year 1 - I learned that COBOL is a jurassic computer language that is still being used today. Amazing!

Year 2 - Beginning of the Dark Age. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was, is lost.

Year 3 - Age of confusion. History is yet to decide if this was the end of the Dark Age or a new beginning.

Year 4 - Quarter life crisis.

Year 5 - Quarter life crisis. Resurgence of the procrastinate-incarnate in me.

I learned about the ‘good’ news two weeks ago. My hard work, intense lobbying, and marketing paid off.

At the end of the day, I still consider myself an economist, a pragmatist. It’s the bottom line that counts. Another year has passed; it’s time to re-visit my CBA figures.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank my sponsors, este yung mga sumalubong at malugod akong tinanggap at inaruga sa mga unang araw ko sa Florida. Hindi ko na kayo iisa-isahin, baka magkaroon pa kayo ng career. Kilala nyo naman ang mga sarili ninyo kaya maggi ng ipagkalandakan pa. Alam ko ang iniisip mo, tinatanong mo kung bakit sinulat sulat ko pa ito at mega bati pa ako eh hindi ko naman pala sila papangalanan? Eh bakit marunong ka pa sa akin? Hehe.

Nawa ay pagpalain kayo ni Emre.

“The air is filled with deafening noise and sumptuous smells.” This is how a BBC correspondent described

New Delhi

. I really love the British way with words. It’s as if every one of them is a diplomat in training.

I am piqued at how the West, read as US and

Britain

in particular, put a blind eye to what

Israel

is doing in

Lebanon

. I am no anti-Semitic and I am certainly no advocate of terrorism. I also believe in the concept of the right to defend one self but I don’t see the right of anyone to go into their neighbor’s house without a search warrant because they believe it’s the neighbor’s son who is stealing all the cookies in the neighborhood. Wag sana sila ma-karma.

I’m stuck here at

Detroit

Airport

doing nothing for 7 hours waiting for my flight. I’m a day early than schedule to

Florida

because apparently everybody in

Manila

are going out of the country, this must be the diaspora that young, younger than me that is, student from UP talked about in her speech. All flights are booked until mid August. I tried all airlines, every possible route, via

Hong Kong

,

Singapore

,

Kuala Lumpur

,

Bangkok

, even

Taipei

to no avail! As fate would have it, I got confirmed for July 28 flight on July 27, not morning but afternoon! With my “to-do” list almost two-page long, I had to prioritize. It’s simply an impossibility to do everything in less than 12 hours what I would normally plan out for at least a week. So without sleep, I boarded a Northwest flight bound to

Tokyo

, then to

Detroit

, and later to

Florida

, my final destination. Haggardness to the nth power.

Kayo ba ay nalolongkot at walang makaosap? Tawagan ako sa 954-441-8378, country code 1.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting. – Don’t you know that whining is therapeutic? I’m in therapy.

We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are. – That explains why I see beauty in everything!

If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. – Ano raw?!

If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you. – Care to argue with that?

So long as you rob Peter to pay Paul, you’ll have Paul’s support. – Our politicians do better, Peter has no idea he’s being robbed and he ends up supporting the politician!

Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies. – I like that.

I am in shape. Round is a shape. – So are square, oval, rectangle, and triangle.

Brain cells come and brains cells go, but fat cells live forever. – Is this true?

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. – And to think I thought I was never good at art!

To have a successful relationship I must learn to make it look like I’m giving as much as I’m getting. – Wins, Pat, Jude, Nina, Consi, and Ninie can you confirm this? I know what your answer will be but I just want to hear it from you guys. J

Love is blind and so are we but only God can make a tree.

Top 5 Reasons why I watch the World Cup.

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How can I not love the sport?!